Perception and thoughts about USA

A few months ago I was watching a US news channel and there was a story about Vancouver in Canada. They referred to Vancouver as "A city North of Washington state" and didn't even mention the name of the city... as if people in the US are too stupid to know one of the main cities in a neighbouring country. anyway this is just an example of typical US television which gives people in the US a bad image they don't deserve... well most :D

Also being a neighbour to the US has allowed Canada to be a little lazy :P

Generally though I like the US and I like the people as much as anywhere else :)
 
mark3 said:
You really shouldn't target anyone. The minute they know how to get a leg up on you is the minute they take advantage of our weakness again. It needs to be truly random.
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I disagree. The World Trade Center attack (and related ones) was all done by Muslim men traveling without families, right? If future attackers are likely to fit a similar profile, you have a much better chance of finding them that way, since you're concentrating more effort on checking similar travelers. It doesn't need to be along race lines (targeting just "young or middle-aged adults traveling alone who have seats near the cockpit" would do a much better job, with less hassle, than targeting Muslims), but if you don't do any targeting at all then you might as well not even do searches.

More politically neutral analogy: suppose a company made laptop and desktop computers, but the laptop ones were known to (once in a long while) have a fatal flaw that would cost the company thousands of dollars to fix if they were released to the consumer. Does it make more sense to test every 10th laptop, or to test ever 20th laptop and every 20th desktop?
 
tanya33 said:
A few months ago I was watching a US news channel and there was a story about Vancouver in Canada. They referred to Vancouver as "A city North of Washington state" and didn't even mention the name of the city... as if people in the US are too stupid to know one of the main cities in a neighbouring country. anyway this is just an example of typical US television which gives people in the US a bad image they don't deserve... well most :D

Also being a neighbour to the US has allowed Canada to be a little lazy :P

Generally though I like the US and I like the people as much as anywhere else :)
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Not that I'm angry but Canadians are far from lazy. We actually supply the USA with lots of resources, sometimes more than they provide us. We send over lumber, uranium, potash and much more if I'm not mistaken...
 
Jason said:
When non-US forum members say socialist, they don't mean communist. Generally when you say the word socialist to an american, Stalin, goulags and the Gosplan come to their minds. When europeans say socialism, they mean to talk about ideas such as universal free healthcare, wellfare protection, trustworthy public services, solidarity.... In which case I would say that France is definately a country with socialist values.
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I do think socialism is the best system in which a country could live. People think that socialism is the same as communist; but you've got to remember tha socialism was never applied in the earth. (nor USSR nor Cuba)
 
krazedkat said:
tanya33 said:
A few months ago I was watching a US news channel and there was a story about Vancouver in Canada. They referred to Vancouver as "A city North of Washington state" and didn't even mention the name of the city... as if people in the US are too stupid to know one of the main cities in a neighbouring country. anyway this is just an example of typical US television which gives people in the US a bad image they don't deserve... well most :D

Also being a neighbour to the US has allowed Canada to be a little lazy :P

Generally though I like the US and I like the people as much as anywhere else :)
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Not that I'm angry but Canadians are far from lazy. We actually supply the USA with lots of resources, sometimes more than they provide us. We send over lumber, uranium, potash and much more if I'm not mistaken...
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oh no I didn't mean with our resources or productivity I was referring to our military (a kind of joke). Canada is badass that is why I live here but we need to grow some balls and become more independent. btw you're the first Canadian I've seen on here soo hi.
 
Hi my brother XD... Just so you know though, Canada was the main superpower of WWI, we basically ENDED WWI! Not to mention... Who won the war of 1812? Whose training is based on ours?
 
krazedkat said:
Just so you know though, Canada was the main superpower of WWI, we basically ENDED WWI!
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That isn't true at all. Calling Canada the main Superpower of World War One is like saying The US, Germany, The UK, France, Austria, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire didn't exist. Canada didn't end the war at all. For the most part that was a collaboration between the US, UK, Italy and France, although other European powers (as in, not Canada) had pretty big roles as well.

krazedkat said:
Not to mention... Who won the war of 1812?
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Nobody did actually, please read the terms of the Treaty of Ghent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent

krazedkat said:
Whose training is based on ours?
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I don't know, please tell me
 
a) Do some more research, ever heard of the battle of Passchendaele? We owned
b) Exactly... Idiot
c) Yours is. You're huge army is based on OURS!



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The term "storm trooper" was first used by the Germans in the First World War to describe the Canadian troops that they had to fight against. Canadian troops were most feared by the Germans during the First World War, and the German army always prepared for the worst when an attack was spearheaded by the Canadian army.
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a. Ever heard of EVERY OTHER BATTLE IN WORLD WAR ONE? What about supplying the allied countries with food, fuel, and weapons that they wouldn't have been able to survive without?
b. Yes, Canada didn't win the war of 1812, which was a draw between the US and the UK. I don't get what you're trying to prove.
c. Please provide a source. I only say this because I know you won't actually find one, and it'll save you the embarrassment of posting stupid things.

That whole thing you pasted about the word stormtrooper? It's not true.
 
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a) I know that was important but look at my edit now...
b) Canada and Britain were TOGETHER in the war! I'm proving that YOU didn't win!
c) Do your own research -.-
 
a. Your edit was copy and pasted from wiki answers.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_stormtrooper
Read the rebuttal argument already posted on the wikianswers, because it's actually true, unlike the biased, poorly written, false trash that you pasted.
b. Canada was a territory of Britain. The war was between Britain (which was only the most powerful empire in the history of the world at the time) and the US (which had won it's independence less than 30 years earlier.) Nobody won the war. It's a minor footnote of the Napoleonic Wars that had no actual effect on anything. Nobody cares.
c. No. You made the claim, which is simply false. How could I research something that isn't true? If you make a claim you have to be able to back it up.
 
krazedkat said:
a) Do some more research, ever heard of the battle of Passchendaele? We owned
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So because Canada had a hand in a fairly major battle fought more than a year before the War actually ended, they all of the sudden become "the main superpower of WWI" who "basically ENDED WWI!"? I think not.

Canada's overall involvement was about on par with that of Australia and the Indian Empire. Even so, all 3 of those countries made up about 1/5 of the British Imperial Forces. Not even the entire Allied side, just Britain! Canadian military casualties make up slightly more than 1 percent of the total Allied losses, and the ratio for injured is quite similar. So unless Canada was sending in bionic super-soldiers who were largely impervious to harm, I don't think their involvement was quite as great as you say it was.



krazedkat said:
c) Yours is. You're huge army is based on OURS!
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Can you please provide a single shred of factual evidence to back this up? I tried to find some, but all I really found out was that Canada's military didn't really come into being until almost 100 years after the United States Military. Of course the bionic super-soldiers can also travel through time RIGHT? I'm sure that's it. Even though I have no factual evidence, I capitalized one of the words for emphasis, so it must be true.
 
This is going to turn into "Perception and thoughts about Canada" :).

The U.S. has the highest prison population per capita in the world. Something's wrong there. Also, African americans are over-represented in your prisons
 
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